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What Are The Androids In The Handmaids

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Some androids in the novel show signs of empathy. The android Pris Stratton, occasionally showed signs of emotional connection to its fellow androids. For example, after Stratton learns that a friend of hers had been retired by Rick, she gets devastated. This is evident when she speaks with J. R. Isidore visits her and she notes how the bounty hunters had murdered almost all of them “Or I had.Seven of them. That was to start with but now the bounty hunters have had time to get to work. So some of them - maybe all of them - are dead” (Dick 67) A majority of the human race deserted earth after the World War Terminus. Every person who left to live on mars got provided with free “Nexus 6” androids which were meant to assist them to settle down
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